The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04

Touch Mine" will take great pleasure in furnish
ing her with it. Ny mother has n motto in her
school room like this, "TLe Lips that Touch Snuff
IAN Never Touch Mine | send five cents that
my name may 30 in your Bible. l viii mail the
poetry 10 the person as soon as get the address
VIII be glad 10 have your name in my Bible.
Ebert @. Utley wildwood. N. CT had the
pleasure few days since of meeting with Aunt
Mary of The Raleigh Christian Advocate; that dear
good woman, who is doing SO much for the cause Of
missions, aud now feel like Iwant TO make Aunt
susie acquaintance. l know of no other way
except through TIE CONSTITUTION, 50 I will write
hoping my letter win not reach the waste basket as
this Is my first attempt. q farmer son Just ten
years olc, and as have no brothers or sisters TO
| play with, take great Pleasure IN reading THE
| CONSTITUTION, especially the children's column.
| would like to correspond with some of the cousins
ana tell tEemahow plentiful the squirrels and rab-
| bits ale here, and how much like to hunt them.
Matte Harris, Florence, Cal am ten years old.
| nave been going to school, but have stopped. l
| study Grammar, geography, dictionary, Swntons
| WORD booE and arithmetic / have one sister and
one BROTHER my sister Is married; she lives only ono
mile nom us see her very often. Brother works
On the farm; think he is very smart; he is thirteen
years old. Papa takes THE CONSTITUTION. l enjoy
reading it, especially Womans Kingdom
Fred Cox, Waynesboro, Ga.-our school will be-
gin Monday, so will write today to thank you for
yonr kind letters and to tell you that Uncle VIII
writes almost as nice you do. l have a right
nice time hunting and fishing. I read Bill Apps
scrap book when was nine years old and think his
letter about the cyclone the funniest thingI ever
read love Bill Arp because he loves the boys.
send you twenty cents for your Bible for and my
little brother Peter d.. .,
Accept many thanks,
Matte Lane Jackson, Go.-This is my second at
! T
Ike the Young Folks column best ! am not going
10 school now. have no pets except little sister
seventeen months old. guess you are Mr.. GTady's
motherin-law. wish you would write every week.
Wish some of the cousins would write TO me Love
| to Aunt Susie and the cousins
| Miriam Jones, Button Cal am farmers
| daughter eleven years old My sister takes TIE
| CONSTITUTION and like it very much, especially
| the Young Folks column / read it every week
| As am making my letter too long win Close
| with much love to Aunt Susie and the cousins.
Lula E Harrison Marion La wrote to you
once before but did not see il in print thought
| would write rglin. l am reading the Bible
through have come to answer VI. D. Shaw's
question. Methusclah's father was Enoch. Aunt
Susie, think your letters 50 nice. will close
by asking my cousins question. "What book in
the Bible has not the name Of God in it?''
TO ask admittance into your happy band. ! live
t2Duek river have nice times boat riding and fsh
ing. Aunt susie, wish you here to 90 boat
! ing with me- My brother hai nice little boat he
I calls HDuck River Belle" VIII some OF the cousins
send me the piece of poetry called aCurfew Shall
Not Ring Tonight would be much Obliged If
they would. We are going TO have prohibition
speaking saturday am prohibitionlst
"sweet William" Kimball, Texas:
Strangers received with kindly care
Have bleSt as Angels unaware;
VIII Aunt Susie grant stray chance Of Angels
fame
And kindly receive this strangers manner
live in southwest Texas seventy miles west of
San Antonio. The Anausas Pass railroad tour first
and only one through this secton) win he COM
pletel to this point in few days. Our country is
mountainous, intersected by the Guadalupe river
and its valleys. Stock raising and farming are the
| principal industries This is fine health resort
| and much esteemed by those having pulmonary
| complaints / would like to exchange cactus
| ferns or Indian plume seed for gerauims roses or
| jessamne. should be very glad to correspond
with some ofthe cousins
Jennie Carter, Mitchell J. o. Ontario Canada---I
have always been DESTROYS of learning something Of
the customs and habits of my southern friends l
live in the beautiful town of MITCHELL situated on
the river Thames, about forty miles from the city of
London. OF course our climate is much colder than
with you. It is now the 9th of September and soon
the beautiful green foliage viii be turned TO autumn
leaves and then winters are so pleasant; for
amusement we havo skating, toboganiug, sleigh
riding, etc. this is what our country IL accustomed
TO, consequently We contented. / should like
very much TO have some correspondents in the
south that could make correspondent interesting
and edefying Address above, box 1QO
Henne Lowry and Eula Douglass.-Will you ad.
NIT two more little girls TO join your happy family
and say Aunt Susie and cousins. We ave never
seen anything in your paper from the children of
Houston county, Texas. We live nine miles from
Crockett cast qIennie) am eight years old and
help mother; last week made peach pie by my
self papa aud Uncle Silas said II was very good We
all enjoy Uncle APPS letters; he writes such good
letters for the farmers to read; we all think we can
profit by them. We could tell you u heap about
grandma and how feeble she h. but as none of YOU
know her az well we do, WIFI close for we are
afraid we We writ too much already
Note-lIhf Of your letter was written on the
wrong fGrt Of the paper and Is left out
Birdie Belle Plain, Iowa--Iaye you ever thought
cousins, what good and noble woman Queen Vic
toria isl And how much She has done for the
world2 How many slaves she / ree2
The pictures Of those simple, but odd toys remind
ell me Of the noble queen.
We seldom such toys as those do we cousins?
The art of the toys Is curious, When / see some
thing new 10 me, am always curious about how 1t
was made.
DO you know how the toys were made, Aunt su.
sie2
Foreign ways nre very different from ours and we
do not comprehend the reason. We have very little
knowledge of their ways in general, from commerce
down 10 dress. have read several books entitled
"Chatterbox +" and ] find them splendid for obtaln-
ing foreign history. III ere is another way to learn
cousins, If we but think. Let listen 10 our pa
rents when talking 10 their friends and never speak
unless Ye are asked a question and we viii learn a
great deal, besides showing good character which
hope sou all have Mother hos told me all these
things as many mother tells her child. When /
went 10 school TO my sister, she said obeyed her
for fear Of punishment but told her it was TO pre-.
serve my character Let us lta3e Oh plalsng TuE
CONSTITUTION 80 much, c0usinss Aunt Susie knows
how much We appreciate IT, yla tu4 4.f
Carrie J. Hart, Long Cane Ga.-After a long
silence once knock at the dock OF the merry
cousins for admittanec This my third attempt TO
write 10 TIE CONSTITUTION. win try and interest
my little cousins by telling them about my home.
We live on large hill on each side we have large
orchards and In summer We generally have PLENTY
Of fruit In front Of the house IS beautiful oak
grove We alFo live the hourshing little VII